Dell PowerConnect 2824 Display

Just a quick question, I was reading the manual for my switch since I'm setting up the VLAN's and I'm not used to dell since I came from an HP environment. anyways, according to the dell manual and everything I see online, there is supposed to be a graphical representation of your switch on the management console so you can see the status of ports and such. Now i don't see that on mine, is there something I need to do to enable it? did I need to setup the switch via console?

The 28xx series comes from the factory in "unmanaged" mode. You have to set it "Managed" mode to see the web GUI. See page 49 of this document - http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/network/pc28xx/en/ug/pdf/ug_en.pdf

Once you enable it just point a web broswer to the IP that you configured. You'll then have access to everything shown in chapter 5 of the manual - http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/network/pc28xx/en/ug/pdf/ug_en.pdf

Not sure what the problem is. You'll need to call into support or you could also post this question over on the Dell Community Forum - http://en.community.dell.com/forums/866.aspx - They might have an idea.

I was going to suggest updating the firmware, but I checked and it is already shipping with the latest.